ABSTRACT
Despite the continued involvement of the industrial and scientic community in the eld of sustainable chemistry, it was only between 1996 and 1997 that the term green chemistry was rst used [1, 2]. The denitions of green chemistry and sustainable chemistry have been, and still are, the subject of a long ongoing debate. Herein the term green chemistry will be used according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) denition that states: “Green Chemistry includes the invention, design, and application of chemical products and processes to reduce or to eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances” [3].
